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A SEA OF GUITARS AND AMPS, DOGS RUNNING AMUCK, COFFEE, COMFY COUCHES--welcome to your favorite independent guitar shop. While giant chain stores and online retailers have changed the business landscape, [...]

PAPA ROACH'S EIGHTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, F.E.A.R. [Eleven Seven Music Group] contains the explosive, high-octane intensity fans expect from the Nor Cal rockers, only this album is fueled by a new [...]

STUDIO MUSICIAN AND SIDEMAN VERNON 'Ice' Black--currently with the Booker T. Jones Band--has played with a huge range of industry legends including Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Kahn, [...]

LEXINGTON [INDUSTRIAL AMUSEMENT], Wayne Kramer's first jazz album, was inspired by the MC5 guitarist's incarceration at the Lexington Federal Prison in the mid 1970s for selling cocaine. The famous institution--once [...]

AFTER BEING IMPRESSED WITH STEF Burns' rendition of 'Surfing with the Alien' at the 1988 Bay Area Music Awards show, Joe Satriani soon helped change the course of the guitarist's [...]

WHEN HE WAS JUST 15 YEARS OLD, SOUL PIE guitarist Tommy Odetto was invited to jam with Carlos Santana. Soon after, Santana brought Odetto to Fantasy Studios, where he was [...]

'MY NAME IS WAYNE KRAMER, AND I'm mostly known as a guitar player, but for a few years I was known as 00180190 when I was in the custody of [...]

'There were no other bands playing our style of metal when we first appeared,' says Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford. 'This was all created from an original source, and that [...]

'We recorded our demos with a boom box when I was a kid,' says Foo Fighters/Jackson/Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' guitarist Chris Shiflett, 'You were lucky if one of [...]

'A lot of metal fans still ask me why I left Testament,' says former speed metalist Alex Skolnick, 'and the main reason was that I felt limited playing only heavy [...]

'My first guitar teacher made me work through a Beatles songbook,' says Foe Fighters' lead guitarist Chris Shiflett. 'That was great advice, because the songs were kind of easy, and [...]